Jon Stewart makes dystopian World War 3 prediction while railing against Trump

Jon Stewart has implied that Germany would revert to Nazism without U.S. military aid as President Donald Trump continually criticizes ‘free-loading’ NATO nations.

The Daily Show had on former Mitt Romney advisor Oren Cass to discuss his upcoming book ‘The New Conservatives’ on Monday when he made the concerning suggestion.

Earlier in the day, leaked Pentagon documents revealed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged that the Trump administration is unlikely to provide substantial, if any, support to Europe in case of a Russian advance.

As NATO scrambles to reassure the president it can ‘step up’, Stewart suggested leaving Germany on its own as a military power could lead to a rise in Nazism.

‘The United States, I guess I don’t see us as victims of a con game that Europe has been running on us and like the idea that we want Germany to be able to fend off Russia on their own places us in very tenuous position does it not,’ the comic said.

Cass asked him to explain what he meant, prompting Stewart to bring up World War II.

‘I have a book at home about Germany and their position as a global military power where we didn’t have sway right and they did what they wanted, I mean it didn’t work out,’ Stewart said.

‘No, no, no, I want to pick up on this,’ Cass replied as the audience laughed. ‘Because this is the fun applause line that like, “Oh, the Germans will just become Nazis again,” like that’s a weird racist critique of Germans. I don’t see any reason to believe that.’ 

Jon Stewart implied that Germany would revert to Nazism with U.S. military aid

Former Mitt Romney advisor Oren Cass (left) called the comparison a ‘weird racist critique of Germans’

Stewart grinningly replied, ‘Well, let’s be honest, it is.’

Cass asked, ‘On what basis are you saying this is like something about Germany that we can’t abide?’

‘I think it’s that there is an element within their society that they’ve deemed… this is not me saying Germans will do that, this is Germany. This is… I didn’t say they’ll become that, the leaders of Germany are fearful that they have this,’ Stewart said.

Cass fired back claiming Germany is benefiting by having their military paid for by the U.S. and doubled down that NATO is ‘freeloading on our military’.

In February, Stewart said he’s bored of anti-Trump Democrats calling the president a ‘fascist’ and says the word is being overused to the point where it’s losing its meaning. 

The Daily Show star said the liberal media has ‘numbed’ the country to the word as he was speaking off-air to an audience member who accused him of being ‘light on the fascist message recently.’

‘Oh, well, I’d tell my critics – shut up! You’re a fascist!’ Stewart snapped back, before elaborating on why he has removed the word from his shows since last year’s election.

‘I think if you cry “fascism” at every administrative overreach, even the ones that are constitutionally OK, you will find yourself out of fascism bullets when the time really comes,’ Stewart continued as he noted he is ‘very big on specificity and nuance.’

Leaked Pentagon documents revealed the Trump administration is unlikely to provide substantial, if any, support to Europe in case of a Russian advance

He accused the media over ‘crying wolf’ over the last ten years – ‘to the point where they numbed everybody.’

‘It was an anesthetic, and it got to where- what was the thing they litigated throughout this campaign? “He’s a fascist, he’s a terrible person, democracy is on the ballot.”

‘Guess what lost at the [ballot box]? If you told us democracy was on the ballot, democracy got its ass kicked by a majority vote. 

‘So I am very cautious about when to know, like, yeah- hopefully I won’t do it the night after Kristallnacht… but it’s like when you put your dog down. It’s one of those things, like, you’re not quite sure, but I do understand how annoying that is.’

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